People create games and pass on through their games the rules and values and dreams of their real lives. Perhaps the real message of the Christian game is that as in every other age Christ is the one who exposes the violence and exploitation of our crassly commercial game of life and through his subsequent rejection by the powers-that-be dramatically illustrates his message of freedom to those who couldn’t see or hear it any other way.

The best response to the Religious Right is to acknowledge that it is correct
in believing that secularism does not deserve to be our enforced national faith.
But a fundamentalist and parochial Christianity is not the answer to our quest
for a moral center.

Fashion,
entertainment and possessions are identity markers for the youth of our times.
Churches need critical perspective on the influence of contemporary media and
values of consumer capitalism. The authors of these three works document the
pervasiveness of this consumer capitalism and media in defining young peoples'
experiences.

It is precisely because these magazines are anti-sexual that they deserve the most searching kind of theological criticism. They foster a heretical doctrine of man, one at radical variance with the biblical view. For Playboy’s man, others—especially women—are for him. They are his leisure accessories, his playthings. For the Bible, man only becomes fully man by being for the other.

The projection of the Peter’s map shows all parts of the world in proportion to their true areas, while the Mercator Projection greatly distorts relative areas so that Europe, the Soviet Union, Canada and Greenland are shown as far larger relative to South America and Africa than they really are. Much controversy has surfaced over Peter’s map.

In the late 20th Century, churches face a situation unprecedented since the
Church's formation (comparable in magnitude to the era of the Christian apologists
and the Reformation), in which most churches' thought and practice - and by
implication God's revelation - are framed within and associated with communication
and modes of thought of a past stage of cultural development. The author suggests
implications for the church.

Brasher observes that media technologies play a formative role in human socialization such that the term "cyborg" is an apt metaphor for contemporary humanity. For traditional religions, whose canonical texts emerged from pastoral and agricultural societies, the challenges this change in the locus of human identity brings with it are profound. Yet the `cyborgs’ who fail to connect with the meaning goods of traditional religions show scant sign of abandoning religion en masse. Instead, they are fashioning popular culture religions out of the ingredients of their hyper-mediated environment. Brasher concludes the article with an examination of the insights and dangers that these emerging popular culture theologies present.

Starting from the proposition that
the whole history of Western culture can be seen as a history of demythologization,
Lane reviews Joseph Campbell’s espousal of what could be called a remythologization
of culture. While critical of Western theology for its neglect of myth, Campbell’s
irenic spirit encourages theologians to treasure their metaphors, their poetry,
their universal stories.

There is a remarkable sense in which the Super
Bowl functions as a major religious festival for American culture, for the
event signals a convergence of sports, politics and myth. Like festivals in
ancient societies, which made no distinctions regarding the religious,
political and sporting character of certain events, the Super Bowl succeeds in
reuniting these now disparate dimensions of social life.

Pac-Man is based on the biblical
narrative, its story the same one Jesus told in a different way. Pac-Man is
existence, captured in the bleeps and blips of the electronic board. It is, in
short, life as we hear it in the Judeo-Christian traditionIt is the most thoroughly theological of all
the video games.

Patriotism of the type popularized by the fictional John Rambo and the real-life Ollie North is gravely threatening to a constitution democracy. What is required now in our society is to combine zeal with understanding, a process that calls for discussion, argument, debate and clarification.